The purpose of this paper is to identify main components and driving forces behind an innovation process in order to support regions in organising their "endogenous innovation process". To that end, we study models of an innovation process and analyse the case of Sophia Antipolis. This...

The paper examines the relation between industrial mix and regional productivity growth. For this purpose, a dynamic model of the open economy with differentiated sectoral knowledge formation and incomplete interregional knowledge diffusion is constructed. The theoretical framework is first used...